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The Olympic World Feed Project: Searching, acquiring and preserving the international television signal of the Olympic Games from 1956 to 1988

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  • Meichtry, Yasmin

    (Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage, Switzerland)

  • Sánchez, Isabel

    (Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage, Switzerland)

Abstract

This paper describes the project carried out by the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage (OFCH) to locate, acquire and preserve all official televised coverage (ie the international television signal) of the Olympic Games broadcast between 1956 and 1988. After providing a general overview of the audiovisual archives of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which are managed and overseen by the OFCH, and outlining the OFCH’s mission and challenges in this respect, the paper discusses how the television broadcasting of the Olympic Games has evolved and the impact of these developments on the race to repatriate and preserve this content. The paper goes on to discuss the Olympic World Feed Project, describing the planning that went into recovering more than 3,000 hours of content missing from the IOC’s archives, as well as the various steps involved and the numerous challenges faced along the way. In particular, the paper provides a case study of the acquisition of the international television signal produced during the XIV Olympic Winter Games — Sarajevo 1984.

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  • Meichtry, Yasmin & Sánchez, Isabel, 2021. "The Olympic World Feed Project: Searching, acquiring and preserving the international television signal of the Olympic Games from 1956 to 1988," Journal of Digital Media Management, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 10(1), pages 36-52, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jdmm00:y:2021:v:10:i:1:p:36-52
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    Keywords

    international signal; Olympic Games; Olympic movement; digitisation; preservation; heritage; archives; Olympics;
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    JEL classification:

    • M11 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Production Management
    • M15 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - IT Management

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